Door-hanger and means to prevent the swaying of doors.



No. 854,789.. PATENTED MAY 28, 1907. J. WOYAK. DOOR HANGER AND MEANS TO PREVENT THE SWAYING OP DOORS. APPLIQVATION FILED MARJZ, 1907.

2n M ,t i h E .uwm. .HWHHH l /a W m Ii|@|@- w/ J g h n 0 R. m v Q. R A MR 7 To aZZ whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH WOYAK, OFMILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, I .DOO'FFHANGER AND MEANS o. FREVENT THE SWAYING OF oooRsL'l no. 854,789i

. Be it known-that I, 'JosEPmWoYAK, a citi- .zen of the United States, and a resident of thecounty of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented'certain i new and useful Hangers and Means to Prevent Swaying of Doors; and Ido hereby declare that the fol lowing is a full, clear,

Milwaukee, in

Improvements in Doorand exact description thereof I v I The improvements consist in what is herein shown, described and claimed the object with simple, economical roller-hangers and sway-guards, in combination with housed tracks for the rollers and stay-rails enga' ing said guards,- said invention being especially ap licable to slide doorsof freight cars.

igurel of the accompanying drawings represents a side elevation of a, slide-door provided with tures in accordance with my invention, the track housing forlts roller- Bald housing and rail being broken away.

Fig. '2 of verse sectional view indlcated by lines 2 2 in Fig. 1.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A dicates a sliding door provided with hangers a pair of angular plates B Y C, fitting one upon the other and bolted td the door, the upper portions of the plates being suitably bent in opposite directions, to

' bolted or form housings for rollers D, 'E that turn on an axle F mounted in parallel vertical portions of said plates and the recur'ved u per ends of same. The rollers run on the tom track-portions of an angular housing'G otherwise fastened to the side-of a freight-car, barn-wall or other support having an opening therein'for which the. door serves as a sliding closure.

' Bolted to the lower portionof the door are sway-guards, each of prises a pair of an ular plates H, I, fitting one u on the other iutin some instances the plate will be a sufficient sway-guards Each Specificationof Letters Patent.

Application filed Mareh-12y1907. Serial No- 362,040.

ing a hangers, and the stay-railfor its sway-guards,

1 angular plates fittin which preferably com-- Patented May 28, 1907.

under a flange of a T-rail J bolted to thecarplate H has its lower end bent inward at a right-angle to'the remainder thereof to'come 5 blocks K bein employed between said'rail' andfsupport'. I inward at a right-angle paralle to the lower edge of the doorand then at a double righthe companion-plate I is bent angle to come under the flange of the rail J aforesaid, whereby outward sway of said door is prevented. The sway-guards also prevent vertical displacement of the door. of the invention being to provideslide-doors I claim:

the-0t poslte directions to form housings, an ai: o mounted in parallel vertical port ons of the 1. The combinationof a door, hangers in rigid connection therewith and each compris-j air of angular plates fitting'one. upon er, their upper ends being bent in o plates and the recurvedupper ends of same,

and rollers on the axle within the housings; tracks for the rollers,

2'. The combination of a door, roller-hangtrack, a late fastened to the to extend and then at adouble ri rail having a flange t guard.

3. The combinationof a 'sway-guards-rigidly secured to the lower portion of the door; and a stay-rail opposing said guards.

said drawings represents a trans i 'JOIIer-hang z glde connectlon therewith, a roll 'ers in rigid connection there 'th, a- ;roller or and bent parallel to the lower edge of sametrack, sway guards each comprising a air of rlgid connection wit one upon the ot erp'in the door, and a stay- L rall having flanges with which the ends of the i sway-guard plates are parallel under the same.

' In testimony-that I claim the foregping-I ee,.in

Milwaukee and State of'Wis-f presence of two witnesses;

JOSEPH woYAn,

have hereunto set my hand at Milwau the county of consm'in the Witnesses:

F. S. SMITH, EDWARD KUNovsKr.

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